Naruto: Tales of Symphonia
Chapter 1: Prologue
(I do not own the show Naruto, or the game Tales of Symphonia)
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This story is a crossover between Naruto and Tales of Symphonia.
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It's ironic isn't it; they always said that I was a demon, the Kyuubi in human form. They always beat me and tried to kill me at every turn in till they got their wish, once I was an innocent child… now I'm something more… something Evil.
I could feel it the first time I ever used the strange power, the pure evil and hatred that implored me to slaughter all my enemies and prove my superiority. I was six years old at the time, just kicked out of the orphanage a day earlier. I still remember why I had to use that power; a mob had tried to kill me… I really must thank them when I get to hell. I also remember the look on the old mans face when he found me along with his ever fateful white haired inu ANBU who had a tenancy to read porn on the job, the look of utter shock and horror, cant really blame them either. Seeing a six-year-old child surrounded by body parts, soaked in blood and laughing like a child on Christmas morning, the image was probably burned into their memory for the rest of their life.
After that I was quickly sent to the hospital for a full mental evaluation, I passed, they couldn't find anything wrong. Actually I was better that before, well except for my laughing, but I couldn't help it everything was so fumy to me.
Even when the council got word of me killing… no, slaughtering a whole mob of people and forced the old man to send me to prison I didn't scream or cry, I laughed.
Now four years later I've changed dramatically so, I had gotten control of my laugh and met my 'tenet' after the first week and even in my temporary bought of insanity I forced the demon into giving me it's power, the same power that I used to kill the whole mob. Along with it's power came its knowledge. I spent most of my time sifting through separating its worthless memories from the ones that showed how to use its power… my power. After separating them, I started transferring the knowledge to my own brain and to tell you the truth, I didn't expect it to hurt that bad. I spent quite awhile waiting for the hole that I bit in my lip to heal.
But I guess I'll have to finish this later, I seem to have a visitor.
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Sarutobi's gaze was mournful as he watched what used to be his favorite bright-eyed ball of energy. He had changed so much from the small bundle of joy, his bright blue eyes that used to be full of love and happiness and now cold and seemingly lifeless with a dangerous glint. His spiky blond hair that had once went out in every direction making him look like a sun kissed sea urchin was now spiked back and had lost its brightness, it was now dull with what looked like slightly red tips.
The gray prison cloths that covered his frame were too big for him, mostly because he was about ten years younger than any other prisoner, something he knew how to use for his own benefit and enjoyment.
Sarutobi had to admit Naruto was clever, using the female's natural instincts and attraction to cute things like that, he remembered watching the whole thing with his crystal ball.
-FLASHBACK-
(8year old Naruto)
Naruto sat on his cot, bored, the prison guard didn't offer any entertainment, and all he did was sit in his seat and read that little orange book while giggling periodically.
Soon his silent prayers for something to happen were answered when a young purple haired woman wearing a tan trench coat walked in, making the man quickly put his book away and act as if he had been working.
"Hi Naru-kun," she greeted
"Hi Anko-chan," he returned,
The guard scoffed quietly, Naruto knew that this particular one hated him because of his furry prisoner. This particular one was one of the first ones to try and harm him as well by 'forgetting' about him and not giving him his meals, not that he needed it, but any attempt to harm him wasn't going to go unpunished.
Putting on the cutest, happy face he could, he asked, "I'm glad you came by to bring me my dinner Anko-chan, that mean guard said that he wasn't going to feed me"
The guard stiffened.
"Oh really?" She asked glaring at the stiff guard out the corner of her eye.
"Yea then he started reading that little orange book out loud again, I hate that book" he told her crossing his arms and pouting cutely.
A tick mark appeared on her forehead and she started emitting an aura of death towards the Chunin guard who was shaking slightly. She started to go and beat the Chunin for reading such a book to an 8-year-old child but stop when Naruto called to her.
"Anko-chan can I ask you a question?" he asked innocently, with his big ice blue eyes.
She stopped and saw his cute blue eyes. She would've glomped him if it weren't for the bars stopping her, try as she might, she just couldn't stop her natural instincts to glomp at cute things.
"Sure" she said waiting for the question. She cut a glare at the Chunin who was edging his way towards the door, making him stop.
"What's a rim job, he said that he would love to give you one"
The Chunin visibly paled as Anko instantly vanished only to reappear feet away from him in an unholy female rage.
-FLASHBACK END-
Sarutobi smiled sadly but it quickly turned to a frown when he remembered why he was here.
"Hello Hokage sama, what brings you here to my humble abode" Naruto greeted, sifting from his meditative poison on his cot,
The old man started to tear up, "I'm sorry Naruto-kun, but I couldn't stop them"
Naruto blinked and narrowed his eyes, "Stop what, Hokage-sama" he asked, uncrossing his legs.
"They called for a vote, you're going to be publicly executed in a hour, they overruled me Naruto-kun I'm sorry," he told him shedding tears for the boy,
Naruto hummed and leaned against the wall. He had expected this for a while and had plan accordingly.
"Do you have a plan for this Hokage-sama" he asked.
Sarutobi frowned and shook his head.
Naruto looked at the old man and gave him a comforting smile; it amazed the old man to see a child so young except death so easily.
Before either could say something the doors opened and two ANBU came in and informed them that it was time.
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The two had put shackles around his wrists and ankles; they were loose mostly because they weren't made for children. The two ANBU seemed to be hesitant to even put them on and he understood why, even in all their training how to you handle have to escort a child to the chopping block.
The three walked slowly down the dirt rode towards to center of Konoha, Naruto who walked between them squinted his eyes at the bright sun. The populace of Konoha sneered and glared as they walked past them and soon they came to the center of town where there was a raised platform with galantine on top.
The people of Konoha, both civilian and ninja alike, surrounded the platform wanting to see the death of the demon that took the life of their friends and family.
The three walked up the step of the platform and Naruto allowed them to place him on the table with his neck under the sharp blade with his hands chained to the side. The two who brought him there quickly disappeared and another ANBU with a plain black mask took hold of the handle, which would release the blade.
"Any last words, demon" he spat.
"Yea, I find it ironic that you pathetic humans think so highly of your little bloodline limits, but hate the ones that gave them to you. The power that was given to you can easily be taken away. Soon as you pull that lever I will do just that. Naruto spoke looking to the crowed.
Murmuring came from the crowd in till one yelled out that he was lying, soon the whole crowd was demanding his death.
Naruto looked out over the crowd and felt the same feeling from four years ago and soon his back shook.
The masked ANBU laughed, "Look the little demons crying-"
Naruto threw his head up and let out a long bout of laughter. The populace quieted and shook at the laugh, it sounded like a child who had heard the funniest thing in the world overlapped with the evilest monster to ever exist. Naruto opened his eyes and showed his silted red eyes the glowed menacingly to the crowed.
The executioner who was terrified pulled the lever dropping the heave blade that would end it all. The laughing stopped and then the screaming started
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Sarutobi stared in shock; he had braced himself to see the headless body of his grandson in all but blood, not this.
Naruto had broken the chains as if ripping through wet paper, and caught the blade with his bare hands. He watched in amazement as Naruto sat up and dropped the blade before glaring at the crowed in front of the platform.
"I told you," he said darkly before his eyes pulsed, after his eyes dimmed multiple people in around the village soon started screaming and clawing at their eyes.
"What did you do?" Asked an awed Sarutobi, who made his way over looking over the crowd.
Another scream emitted behind him and he turned to see Naruto stab the executioner in the eye with a knife that he probably stole from the man.
"Like I said, their bloodline limits could easily be taken away by the ones who made them, luckily or unluckily, I'm now more or less the one who made them" Naruto answered before jumping off the platform and disappearing in a cloud of black smoke.
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Sarutobi sighed, he'd been going through hundreds of reports and it seemed that Naruto was telling the truth, every member of the Uchiha, Akimichi, and Hyuuga clans now couldn't use their bloodlines at all and to tell the truth he didn't really care, Naruto gave them fair warning but they ignored it.
Sifting through some more papers he saw a mission request, if you could even call it that, it was more of a demand wanting to retrieve Naruto and force him to undo what he did to the clans then force him to give other ninjas bloodline of their own.
Sarutobi scoffed at that, like Naruto could be forced to do anything, plus it was their own damn fault this happened. Not wanting to deal with it he balled it up and tossed it over his shoulder.
"Well, that takes care of one problem,"
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Naruto sat on a mountain ledge over looking Konoha. This area was at least a days travel away from the village by ANBU standards, so he wouldn't have to worry about any ninja that may come looking for him. He hummed to himself and looked at the prison garb he had to wear. The gray pants were at least 3 sizes to big for him and had to be held up with a short length of rope. The shirt was the same way; it fell down to his thighs like a high cut one-piece dress. They were ok, even if they had blood on them from the ANBU with the cool black mask.
'I should've taken it, to bad I ruined it when I stabbed the dude in the eye' he thought to himself.
Shrugging off the temporary grief of destroying such a fine mask he stood and turned away from the village and walked away planning on a new, fresh start.
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-8 years later-
Tsunade wasn't having a great day. It started out well enough; she had been able to sleep in without being chewed out by her apprentice, drink a few shots of sake before having to go do her paperwork, that was nearly non-exist, and even won a card game with her old team mate Jiraiya. At least it started out fine, now she was in trouble, big trouble.
She had left her office to go to a dango place for lunch, something that she hardly ever did because of her workload. She enjoyed it but when she arrived back at her office…
"Who are you and what are you doing in my chair?" she demanded, seeing a hooded figure sitting behind her desk with her legs propped up on top of a stack of completed papers.
The person reached behind the desk and grasped something, making Tsunade tense and ready herself for an attack, but when the person threw soggy burlap sack at her she caught it questioningly.
"You leaf ninja should know better than to send assassins after me," Came the assailants voice.
Looking at the bag she felt something drip on her foot, looking down she saw that a red liquid had dripped out of the bag and onto her foot. It didn't take long to figure out what was in the bag; she quickly opened it and dropped it as two decapitated heads came into view. The sack hit the floor with a sickening thud and one of the heads rolled out onto the floor leaving a trail of blood behind.
"You know the fact that you sent only two pisses me off even more" she heard the man say.
Tsunade still hadn't gotten completely over her fear of blood and felt like she was wearing lead weights all over her body, her heartbeat also quickened, and she felt her breathing become shallow at the fact that she had blood on her.
Gathering up as much courage as she could she looked away from the severed heads and spoke, "I sent no assassins, ever since the invasion four years ago we've been trying to repair the village and replace our fallen comrades,"
The man at her desk quickly removed his feet and turned in the chair to face Tsunade completely, "Like I believe that, you wanted the combined bounty that Iwa, Kumo, and Ame placed on my head, after all with all that money you could rebuild the village, fund an all out war and still have enough left over to repair the village again if needed," he accused in a cold voice.
Tsunade felt her heart sink, while she really didn't send any assassins or approve any assassination mission she had a pretty good idea who did and combined with the fact that the mission was to kill the only person to ever have a combined bounty from three major ninja villages equaling around 900 billion, she had a feeling that this didn't bode well for the village.
"I assure you that I didn't send any assassin after you, but I can not speak for the counsel"
The man scoffed, "So your nothing but a figure head, how pathetic"
Tsunade growled at the comment but kept her mouth shut, not wanting to set off the preverbal power keg that sat behind her desk.
"I bet the old man wasn't this weak, I mean at least he was able to keep the council in line." The man continued, he stayed silent for a while, probably thinking about Sarutobi who was killed in the Sound/Suna invasion.
"Anyway," he started, " If what you say is true I have a few council members to weed out later today,"
The man stood and walked towards her, slowly passing her and opened the door before disappearing in the hallway via a black cloud of smoke.
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Naruto strode purposefully down the busy streets of Konoha. The citizens ignored him as he nudged them out of the way so he could pass but the Ninjas glanced at him with interest, after all not many people wore a hooded cloak while walking down a busy street. Nudging another person to the side, Naruto overheard two civilians talking and listened in.
"They called another meeting are you going,"
"Of course I am, are we still meeting at the council building,"
"Yea, after all we can't have a council meeting if we don't meet at the council building"
Naruto quit listening and sped up before jumping up to the rooftops and disappearing in a black cloud of smoke, he had a meeting to attend.
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Naruto stood hidden in a shadow by the doors watching the arrogant council members wait impatiently for Tsunade who had quickly called a meeting after he left. He found it funny that the civilian side seemed to think that they were better than the shinobi clan heads, simply because they had one more member than them.
He shook his head at the humans' ignorance; it should be the other way around because any ninja in that room could more than likely kill every civilian in the room before they knew what was happening.
He continued to silently watch in till the heavy doors swung open and a irate Tsunade stomped in with an ANBU following holding the same sack that Naruto left in her office.
"What is the meaning of this meeting Tsunade," demanded a fat civilian who was sweating like he had ran a marathon,
'Probably took three hours to waddle down here' Naruto mused to himself
Tsunade stomped up to them and crossed her arms, "Who do you think you are sending out ninjas on missions without my say so" she snarled.
Danzo recovered the quickest, "We don't know what you're talking about" he denied.
Tsunade motioned to the ANBU who handed her the sack, which she tossed to Danzo. It landed on the desk with a squelch and he looked at her with a questioning gaze.
Reaching for the top with his single hand he opened it and dumped it out on the table only for everyone but the ANBU and Tsunade to jump as a pair of bloody heads rolled out onto the table.
"You sent assassins after the Akuma-Kaizoe (Devils Helper)" she stated, glaring at Danzo and the rest of the council.
The room fell into a tense silence in till the same fat man broke it, "So what, villages send out assassins all the time"
Danzo felt like killing the man, as did the rest of the council and Tsunade who said, "Yes but not after one that could destroy a whole village and walk away without a scratch"
"Oh please," he scoffed, "like he would attack Konoha, we're the strongest village ever and we could easily crush him"
"Really" Asked Naruto who appeared behind him, shocking everybody.
"Who are you, do you have any idea who we are," yelled the fat man waddling around.
"Akuma's Kaizoe" Naruto said simply before the sound of metal scraping against metal reach their ears along with a gasp from the fat man.
They all stare in horror and shock as the fat man fell back with an open wound in his stomach made from a hidden blade hidden under his sleeve. (Think Assassin's Creed)
Naruto's evil smirk could be seen from under his hood as he reach in his cloak and gripped the handle of a Konoha ANBU issue sword that he had take from one of the headless assassins bodies and drew it from its case. Flipping it into a reverse grip he disappeared in a flash and soon screams of pain echoed throughout Konoha.
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What's that saying? Ah, now I remember, 'Kill one, you're an assassin; kill many, you're a conqueror; kill them all, you're a god' If that's true then what am I?
That was Naruto's thoughts as he stared out at the village.
Konoha, once called the greatest village of ninjas now laid in ruin. Buildings burned along with the bodies that lay inside. Blood drenched the streets and soaked into the clothes of the fallen that had dared to face him.
The screams of the council had attracted the other ninja and soon a full out battle had ensued especially when the members of Root found out that their master had been cut down.
The battle lasted awhile but in the end only Naruto survived and the village was lit ablaze by stray fire jutsus that had been sent at him.
Sitting on the monument, Naruto spared one more glance at the burning area before lifting a large scroll up to his shoulder and dropping the sheathed blade that he had stolen over the edge of the third face. Standing up he turned and walked into the forest that grew above the Hokage monument before he disappeared in a black cloud of smoke.
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Years passed ever since Naruto had destroyed the village of Konoha and by proxy, all the ninja villages. You see, the five great nations had always policed each other, keeping the other in line for fear of another great war, but when Konoha was destroyed, it created a power vacuum. Each nation ran to clam the land once held by Konoha and thus, started the next great ninja war.
Naruto, who had stopped ageing after he turned 19 and learned how to change his age, watched with amusement as each side formed shaky alliances and worked for a common goal before turning on each other out of greed, arrogance, and ignorance.
As seasons came and went Naruto realized that all of this was his fault, even if he had a dislike for most humans, he felt a small pang of guilt and sorrow for the innocents that had been caught in the middle of it all.
Tired of it all he gathered up his belongings, which consisted of a few sealing scrolls that held a few valuable things like; gold, gems, and fascinating weapons like the Raijin sword that once belonged to the second Hokage. Naruto blamed the fox, who had faded away years ago, for his obsession with valuable things. It seemed that all foxes went through that phase when they grew up and some never grew out of it, think kami he did but lets get back to the story.
Some of the scrolls held many years worth of food, yet another phase a fox went through. Wanting to make sure it had enough food to last for awhile incase something happened, though it was kinda dumb, seeing as he didn't need to eat that much, just once or twice every week or two.
After he had all he things Naruto exiled himself to an island a mile off the coast and placed quite a few seals and illusions on it too hide it from wondering eyes and keep the island from ever dieing and becoming nothing more than a dune in the middle of the ocean.
Many more years were spent on the island and after becoming bored with the quite life, Naruto, who was unaware of the world around him changing, went into a deep sleep, which lasted hundreds if not thousands of years.
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This is the first chapter of my first story. I also plan on using this chapter for another story later on
